BGuthrie Photos: AFI -- "Match King" (w/Larry Smith)

AFI -- "Match King" (w/Larry Smith):

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Description of Pictures: Library of Congress Showcase:
AFI Silver is proud to present two films recently preserved from the original camera negatives by the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia, along with the documentary THESE AMAZING SHADOWS, which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and focuses on the vital work in film preservation performed by the National Film Registry and the Library of Congress.

THE MATCH KING
Introduction by Larry Smith, Nitrate Film Specialist, Library of Congress
"Warners' vivid, fact-based, pre-Code melodrama of financial corruption from 1932 is as real as today's headlines." – 2010 London Film Festival. Warren William plays the title character, another in a line of unprincipled businessmen he so vividly portrayed at Warners. Based on Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish industrialist/swindler whose company controlled more than 75 percent of worldwide safety-match production by the 1920s, William's Paul Knoll is an amoral dynamo, crushing competition and human souls with equal gusto. In a display of just how swiftly the studio could move from reality to screen, production began just five months after Kreuger's suicide in March 1932, with the film's release following in December. (Courtesy Mike Mashon)
DIR Howard Bretherton, William Keighley; SCR Houston Branch, Sidney Sutherland, from the novel by Einar Thorvaldson; PROD Hal B. Wallis. US, 1932, b&w, 79 min. NOT RATED

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